MORNING ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912
flattery.
The Short One Why did you give
that beggar a dollar?
The Tall One Because he called me
"sir." Witzigp Rlntter.
LOCALJBRierS
' Dr. van BraMe, osteopath, Masonic
Building, Phone Main 3S3.
George Crooks, of Mulino, was in
this city Wednesday.
Mrs. Herman Fisher, of Carus, was
in this city Wednesday.
Mrs. Robert Ringo and son, of
Clarkes, were in this city Tuesday.
D. C. Fouts, of Logan, was among
the Oregon City visitors Wednesday.
Miss Clara Mosher, of Portland was
in this city visiting friends on Tues
day. Mr. and Mrs. G. Cummings, of Can-
by, were in this city on business Wed
nesday.
Leo Burdon, who has been visiting
at Seaside, Oregon, has returned to
Oregon City.
- Miss Gensie Dillman, who has been
for some time in Eastern Oregon, has
returned to Oregon City.
Elmer Bly and mother, Mrs.- Bly, of
Carus, were among the Oregon City
visitors Tuesday.
E. P. Dedman one of the well known
fruitgrowers of Clackamas, was in
this city on business Wednesday.
John Straight and son, John, Jr.,
have gone to the mountains, where
they will spend several weeks hunt
ing. John B. Lewthwaite, who has been
visiting relatives at Stockton, Cali
fornia, has returned to his home in
this city.
Mrs .Rosina Fouts and mother, Mrs,
Elizabeth Fox, left Tuesday for Can
non Beach, Oregon, where they will
spend two weeks.
F. G. Wight, treasurer of the W. P.
& P. Company, who has been in Ore
gon City on business has returned to
his home in California.
William Lucas, of Parkplace, left on
Saturday evening for Lebanon, o
gon, where he will have charge of the
dairy on his grandfather's place.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jones will leave
, Saturday for Newport, where thfty
will spend about two weeks. Before
returning they will visit Yahatz
beach.
W. A. Wood, of Molalla, one of the
well known business men of that
place, was in this city Tuesday and I
Wednesday, returning to his home
Wednesday evening.'
Mrs. Jennie Butts, of Parkplace, has
gone to Milwaukie, where she was
called by the illness of her sister, Mrs.
George Maple. Mrs. Maple has been
ill for several months. .
Miss Hazel Mills, of Washougal,
Wash., who Has been in Oregon City
visiting her sister, Miss Mable Mills,
and with friends at Beaver Creek and
Carus, returned to her home Wednes
day afternoon.
Mrs. William Wilkinson and daught
er, Lena, have arrived in Oregon City
and are the guests of Mrs. Paul Prae
ger, of Parkplace. Mrs. Wilkinson's
home is at Brownsville, and formerly
resided here.
Mrs. Edward Lamport, of Medford,
formerly Miss Carrie Lutz, of this
city, was in Oregon City on Wednes
day visiting her brother, Earl Lutz.
Mrs. Lamport is making a visit with
her mother, Mrs. A. Johnson.
Thomas P. Randall, H. S. Moody, W.
R. Logus, E. P. Elliott, Dr. H. A. Lin
inger, of Albany, and Ted Osmund
will leave Saturday on their hunting
trip in Douglass County. The party
will be gone for about three weeks.
John Lewthwaite has gone to Cali
fornia, where he will visit at Stock
ton, his former home. He will be ac
companied home by his wife, who left
several weeks ago for California in
company with her son, John B. Lew
thwaite. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Stuart, Dr. and
Mrs. G. E. Stuart and Mrs. R. Flag
ler, of this city left Wednesday for
Newburg, where they will attend the
marriage of Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Stuart's
cousin, and Dr. G. E. Stuart's niece,
Miss Lena Spangler.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lucas and fam
ily, . Mr. and Mrs. John McCormack
and family will leave Friday morning
for Nestucca, where they will remain
for about a month. The party will
go by team, and will camp on the way
enjoying fishing and hunting.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hopgood
Nash, of Boston, the former of whom
is a prominent attorney of that city,
have been in this city visiting at the
home of Mrs. W. E. Lewthwaite. This
. was the first visit of Mr. and Mrs.
Hopgood in Oregon City, and they
were much impressed with the city.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hanny and fam
ily have moved from the Tooze resi
dence on Fourteenth and Water
streets to their new home on Twelfth
street between Washington and John
Adams street. Their home is one of
the most attractive homes in this
city having modern conveniences in
cluding fireplace.-
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Watson, of Ti
onesta, Pa., who have been visiting
their daughter, Mrs. W. A. Shewman
of Concord, will leave for their home
today. Mrs. Watson has been spend
ing several months with her daught
er, but Mr. Watson recently arrived
having visited his timber interests in
California, and in other states on his
way here.
Mr .and Mrs. William McBain, of
Oakland, Cal., who have been in this
city visiting their son, B. T. McBain,
manager of the W. P. & P. Co., in this
city, have gone to British Columbia,
where they will visit with their son,
William McBain, Jr., of .Powell River.
Mr. and Mrs. McBain will visit in oth
er parts of Oregon and Washington
before returning to their home in Cal
ifornia. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Port, of Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, have arrived in
Oregon City, and are visiting the lat-
ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Chamberlain. Mrs. Port was former
ly Miss Lena Chamberlain, of this
city, and is well known here. Mr.
Port was formerly connected with the
W. A. Holmes store in this city be
fore going to Milwaukee. After visit
ing with Mrs. Port's parents here they
will go to San Diego, Cal., where tney
will remain until Fall when they will
return to their home in Wisconsin.
The weather at Milwaukee is extreme
ly warm, and they made the change
for the benefit of Mrs. Port's health.
The Loraine Vaudeville Company
opens a 4-nights engagement at op
era house tonight. Professor Loraine
will make a blind fold street drive
finiding an article hidden by a local
committee. He will drive from the
opera house at 6:30 p. m.
A SMART HAT.
With her usual perversity, Fashion
favors two extremes in millinery
modes this year . To be in the ex
treme of fashion a hat is either high
of crown, often to the point of exag-
eration or flattened out to great
breadth of brim and practically no
crown at all. One design on the lat
ter lines slightly modified is given
above. This is a smart tailor style
with wide, slightly rolling brim hav
ing a becoming dip in the front, and
a low broad crown. Around the crown
is a plain folded band of green taffeta.
The taffeta is made into two wings
and placed on the left side of the
crown.
BOOSTER CLUB IS
STARTED IN LOGAN
LOGAN Or., July 31 (Editor of
the Morning Enterprise.) I wish to
occupy some space in your columns
regarding our new formed "Booster
Club." We have had our first meet
ing and at the meeting most of the
prominent farmers in our progressive
district turned out to discuss the dif
ferent ways of advanced farming and
give ideas how each could improve
his method of farming.
At this, our first meeting, we had
an election pf officers and adopted our
by-laws and transacted other import
ant business that came before the
club.
There was a committee appointed to
see if we could not interest some of
the business men of Oregon City to
build a railroad through this fertile
district, so it would be an easier mat
ter to bring our products, hay, fruit
and grain to market.
We will hold our meetings the first
Saturday of each month, now let
more of us attend these meetings and
work together so things will soon
come our way as a great many of the
Clackamas county citizens realize
that we have some of the richest land
to be found in this good "Old State
of Oregon."
"JOSH BILLINGS."
INUES
ALBANY, Or. July 31. Another fire
of probably incendiary origin started
at 3 o'clock this morning at 122 Mont
gomery street and destroyed the
house at that place. The building was
owned by Dr. J. L. Hill and but light
insurance was carried. It is said that
it has been used as a storeroom for
blind pig supplies. A number of liq
uor barrels was found in the base
ment, empty but smelling strongly of
kerosene.
This fire, following so closely the
burning of the Franklin" house two
days ago, has aroused the city and
various possible solutions of "the sit
uation are being offered. The Frank
lin house a notorious old hostelry, had
been vacated almost entirely just the
days before it burned and kegs and
demijohns of kerosene and gasoline
were found among the ruins by the
firemen, one keg of kerosene still hav
ing a halfburned wisp of hay in the
open bung.
Insurance detectives are now in the
city working on the two cases.
The White Nights.
June is the month of the "white
nights" in the far north. In Finland
one can read a newspaper in the open
air at midnight, and the sky Is bright
with a tender, gentle radiance. There
Is no breik between the sunset and
dawn, and the same rosy flush serves
for both. Strictly speaking, summer
in Finland is just one long day. The
moment the first star glimmers In the
south It is a sign that autumn is at
hand. The long period of light ex
ercises a marvelous effect upon vege
tation, and the leaves of trees grow to
an enormous size. The development
of plant life Is crowded Into a few
weeks, but It is none the less perfect
for that
A Mother's Retort
Dr. Breckenridge. a well known
American clergyman, and his two
brothers, also of the same profession,
one day paid a visit to their mother.
"Do you not think, mother," said he,
"that you ruled us with too rigid a rod
in our boyhood? It would have been
better, I think, had you used gentler
methods."
The old lady straightened up and
said, "Well, William, when you have
raised up three as good preachers as I
have then you can talk!"
AGED WOMAN IS
LEADER IN FIGHT
MRS. MATT MITCHELL, OF, COVE,
IS UNAFRAID.
Union County Lady Works Vigorously
to Down "Wolf in Sheep's Garb"
Single Tax Disliked.
Although an old woman, Mrs. Matt
Mitchell, who lives at Cove, Oregon,
says she is never afraid to work when
the cause is good.
Mrs. Mitchell's home in TJniou
County, she says, is one of those
threatened by the Single Taxers with
their Single Tax propaganda. Aroused
by the efforts of what she describes
as "TJ'Ren and his ilk" and their
"false trash," Mrs. Mitchell has gone
into the field herself.
Modern Joan of Arc.
Like a modern but aged Joan of
Arc, this" old lady organized them
against Single Tax. At her own ex
pense she received books on the sub
ject of the fight against Single Tax
and she distributed 200 of these her
self over the great county in which
she lives. '
"It is people who own no real
estate," said Mrs. Mitchell, the other
day, "who are in favor of Single Tax,
also the ignorant class, and those
who take no newspaper at all. It is
a shame that such men are allowed
to vote at all on anything pertaining
to taxation, while thousands of in
telligent people, who are heavy tax
payers, must have their homes taxed
away from them by such ignorant
persons.
Whole Section in Arms.
"Union County is one of the coun
ties selected by that 'wolf in sheep's
clothing,' U'Ren, so we will all have
to help in the fight. I am an old
woman, but not too old to work in
a good cause."
Mrs. Mitchell says that the whole
of her section is up in arms. Every
property owner in Eastern Oregon,
from the man or woman who uwns a
small lot to the wheat larmers, is
fighting what is known to be a con
fiscation of their homes, declares this
old woman fighter for the "common
good."
Ballot Numbers Told.
Mrs. Mitchell, despite her years,
worked arduously in the campaign
against Single Tax. She circulated
petitions, distributed 200 books, circu
lated cards and gave her time freely.
In addition, she expended her own
money in the fight.
And when a person is willing to
spend real money in a fight for a
vital principle it must be conceded
there is real enthusiasm for what she
knows to be right.
The ballot numbers which will bar
Single Tax from Oregon are 304, 306
and 308.
ATWELL DISLIKES SINGLE TAX.
H. C. Atwell, president of the Ore
gon State Horticultural Society, who
lives at Forest Grove, declares that
he is bitterly opposed to the Single
Tax propaganda. "I shall be glad to
talk against Single Tax whenever I
have the opportunity," commented
President Atwell. 'Mr. Atwell is one
of the most prominent farmers in the
State of Oregon and his views are
considered valuable by many Orego
nians. TEAMSTER DOES GOOD WORK.
Traveling the whole extent of the
country north of the John Day River,
C. W. Bonham is making an ardent
volunteer fight against what he feels
to be the doctrines of Single Tax.
Mr. Bonham makes his headquarters
at Canyon City, Ore. "Although I
don't get my mail regularly," said Mr.
Bonham, "I am doing all I can in the
good work. My friend, Phil Metschan,
can tell you of the extent of the
country over which I travel." Mr.
Bonham distributed over 200 copies
of "Single Tax Exposed," a work by
Charles H. Shields, secretary of the
Oregon Equal Taxation League. This
book should be read by every voter
in the State of Oregon. It proves
conclusively that Single Tax is not a
system of taxation at all, but a means
to destroy private ownership of land.
GARDINER, ORE., MAN IS GLAD.
"I am glad to note the steps be
ing taken," remarked Fred Assen-
heimer, a confectioner of Gardiner,
Ore., the other day, "to stamp out
such an unjust law as Single Tax."
While Mr. Assenheimer would benefit
personally under Single Tax by re
duced taxation, he declared that he
did not consider it fair that he should
escape wMle his farmer friends were
taxed out of existence. "I am glad
there are not many Single Tax people
around here," he told an interviewer.
Couple Gets License
A license to marry was issued Wed
nesday to Clemens Larre and Ernest
F. Widup.
Keeping an Eye on the Fee.
The prisoner was charged with so
trivial an offense that the judge told
him that if he would plead guilty he
would let him off with a fine.
"Before we plead guilty," replied the
man's lawyer, "we'd like to know what
the fine will be."
'Tsn't it rather unusual to attempt to
bargain with the court?" asked the
Judge.
"Perhaps it is, your honor," replied
the lawyer, "but in this case it is im
portant You see, the prisoner has
only $12, and as my fee is $10 we
can't afford to plead guilty If you In
tend to fine him more than $2."
Youth's Companion.
What Did She Mean?
He Won't you miss me when I'm
far away? She No; I shall always
think of you as very close!
1,000 MEN IN STRIKE
ON GRAND TRUNK LINE
VANCOUVER, B. C, July 31. The
extent of the workingmen's strike on
the Grand Trunk Pacific east, of
Prince Rupert, has been underestimat
ed by the public through the reports
of travelers who did not rerjize the
situation, and contractors who had a
private motive in making It appeal
that there was no particular trouble.
The fact is, and this is vouched for
by a mining engineer who has been
in the Oinica country, as a pioneer or
Graham Island, that at least 1000 men
have quit work on the grade, and most
of them are at the present time in
Prince Rupert The Industrial Work
ers of the World are at the bottom
of the trouble.
AGAINST HOP SALES
Hop market continues of steady
character with some" contracts still
being taken by short interests at 21
to 211c a pound. While these re
ports are denied by operators who are
working together with the foreign
bears, confirmation comes from the
country points where the actual busi
ness has passed.
Outside of this business the mar
ket is dull and stagnant all over the
world. Weather conditions have been
against the sale of beer and for that
reason brewers have not been inclined
to take on additional hop contracts
unless some concession in the price
was made. This growers are unwill
ing to accept.
Weather conditions are generally
faorable throughout the world's hop
districts but in this state more heat
is needed.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
DRIED FRUITS (Buying), Prunes
on basis 6 to 8 cents.
HIDES (Buying), Green' hides 6c
to 7c; salters 7c; dry hides 12 c to
14c; sheep pelts 30c to 85c each.
EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 22c case
count; 23c candeled.
FEED (Selling),Shorts $25; bran
$28; process barley $40 per ton.
FLOUR $4.60 to 5.50.
POTATOES New, about lc per lb.
POULTRY (Buying), Hens 11c to
13c; spring 17c to 20c, and roosters
8c; stags 11c. -
HAY (Buying), Timothy out of
Market; clover at $8; oat hay, best,
$10; mixed $9 to $11; alfalfa $15 to
$16.50.
OATS (Buying), $30.00 to $36.50,
wheat 90c bu.; oil meal, selling about
$48.00; Shay Brook dairy feed $1.30
per hundred pounds.
Butter, Poultry, Eggs.
BUTTER (Buying), Ordinary coun
try butter 20c to 25c; fancy dairy
60c roll.
Livestock, Meats.
BEEF (Live Weight), Steers 5 l-2c
and 6 l-4c; cows 4 l-2c: bulls 3 l-2c.
MUTTON Sheep 3c to 3 l-2c
VEAL Calves 10c to 12c dressed,
according to grade.
MOHAIR-33c to 35c.
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Electric Irons
Electric Toaster
Electric Table Lamps
And Electric Appliances
Of Every Description
Will Help Solve the
Let Us Show Yoti.
The Portland Railway Light &
Power Co.
Carry a full line at their local office on
MAIN STREET in the BEAVER BLDG.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
The following are registered at the
Electric Hotel: W. A. Wood, Molalla;
A. H. Newman, Mr. Jamestown, Clar
layson, San Francisco; Cbas. l-iowry,
Elmer Berglund, P. O'Conner, H. W.
Kimback, Portland; A. H. Hatten, Pe
ru; Mrs. Gertrude Park, Portland.
If you saw it in the Enterprise it's
so.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
N. J. Jones to Annie M. Jones, 157.
52 acres of section 34, township 2
south, range 4 east; $1.
Sandy Land Company to W. J. Wir
tz, land in Clackamas County; $1.
Flora M. Young to John C. and
Minnie Elliott, 90.47 acres of sections
4, 5, township 2 south, range 3 east;
$1.
E. O. and Anna Rodlum to Lewis
Rodlum, land in section 28, township
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1 south, range 3 east; $600.
N. A. and Lura Rodlum to Lewis G.
Rodlum, land in section 28, township
1 south, range 3 east; $600.
E. G. Caufield, trustee, to O. W. ,
Eastham, east half of west half of
section 36, township 6 south, range 2
east; $5.
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
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